General Psych Final Review (Outlines)

What is transduction in the context of sensation and perception?

What school of thought: Focus on each person’s growth and self-directedness

What school of thought: Holistic view of thinking, learning, & perception

The child displays mixed/contradictory behaviors such as seeking closeness but also resisting comfort from the caregiver

Correct order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Which describes top-down processing?

Homeostasis

Which is an example of effortful processing?

What is the information processing model?

Which part of the PNS are the sympathetic and parasympathetic part of?

Does this describe sensation or perception: the interpretation of stimuli

According to Erikson, the primary psychological challenge of adolescence is:

Explicit and implicit memories are:

Which test is more commonly used nowadays?

What type of intelligence refers to the accumulated knowledge and verbal skills gained through experience and education?

The child is distressed when the caregiver leaves but is comforted and trusts them upon return.

What type of memory is enhanced when a person's internal state matches the state during encoding?

What school of thought: Focus on the physical determinants of thoughts, moods, andbehaviors

What is shaping?

What is the absolute threshold?

What is psychology?

Non-REM sleep is distinguished from REM sleep by which of the following features?

Action potential is when the neuron becomes excited

Wertheimer is a psychologist in biological psychology

According to Erikson, the primary psychological challenge of late adulthood is:

What type of intelligence involves the ability to reason quickly, solve novel problems, and think abstractly?

Correct order of Freud's psychosexual stages

Which is a function of sleep?

Correct order of Piaget's stages of development

Memory for actions and skills without conscious awareness

Which psychologist was a humanist

Which psychologist was a behaviorist?

Neuron fires electrochemically with what elements?

Bodily sensations, reflexes, some voluntary movement

Which describes WEIRD psychology?

What is group think?

What is the just noticeable difference?

What is it called when recall is improved by being in the same environment where the memory was formed?

What school of thought: Focus on observable behavior

The Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) test is primarily used to measure which of the following

Memory that involves conscious recall of facts and events

What is lateralization?

Freud was a psychoanalytic psychologist

Does this describe sensation or perception: the detection of stimuli

What term describes the process of exposure to one stimulus influencing the response to another stimulus?

The child is indifferent to the caregiver's presence and shows little reaction to their departure or return.

What school of thought: Human behavior strongly influenced by unconscious conflicts

Which describes bottom-up processing?